Comments on: ‘Ono’ – New Azureus Plugin Increases Download Speeds by 883%?

By: Signa

Signa — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

OH NO!

(i might have to drop Utorrent for ono)

By: ourthing2

ourthing2 — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Not good if you use private trackers. They don’t allow things like this.

By: Drugshovel

Drugshovel — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Why do private trackers block this type of program? Does this program help on the upload side at all? I guess it wouldn’t.

By: soulxtc

soulxtc — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

I dont see why they’d block it it doesn’t cheat anybody like BitTyrant all it does is find peers that are closest to you and gives them priority.

By: DrewWilson

DrewWilson — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

I’ve known some of the private BitTorrent site operators and even the slightest reason – even if it doesn’t really make sense some will just ban clients. I’ve heard some sites are reduced down to only using an old version of uTorrent.

By: TOrn_sOuL

TOrn_sOuL — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

In regards to private trackers this will be banned because of its IP usage. In order to find closer clients it needs to become more specific as to your personal location which breaches many issues with the security of private networks. Networks that like to be as safe and anonymous as possible.

By: empcaligula

empcaligula — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Check out your peer list in utorrent sometime. I don’t see how using something that is readily available compromises security. I don’t think there is any client that doesn’t let you view the IPs of connected peers.

By: pandoraenima1

pandoraenima1 — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

yeah its good until the MP** and all the other pricks that harrass people for dloading start trying to hunt you down then ono becomes Oh No!

By: DrewWilson

DrewWilson — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

I can’t see a program that operates in this fashion personally being a seucirty threat in terms of keeping anti-piracy organizations out of your connection (unless the client has an enabled feature that decentralizes the swarm – ala DHT) the reason it’s not a threat to peers is because this threat existed since the protocol has been brought into existence in the first place. You can see IP addresses of everyone in the swarm. Private trackers are even worse because most would ban proxies for security reasons (only exception even remotely like this would be seedboxes which I suppose you could argue acts like a proxy if you can download with it too). Organize everyone by IP address and you’re already doing half the work of what this client can do.

If you expect privacy from P2P one of the last things you want to do is use BitTorrent and go strictly to private sites.